Quotes About Progress

If you could lead through testing, the U.S. would lead the world in all education categories. When are people going to understand you don't fatten your lambs by weighing them?

Education enables people and societies to be what they can be.

A man shrinks or expands into the degree and nature of his ambition. Ambition needs to be cultivated and refined, and yet has no teachers.

Right now, we happen to be in a general period of regression, not just in education. A lot of what's happening is sort of backlash to the 60s; the 60s were a democratizing period.

The opening of the first grammar school was the opening of the first trench against monopoly in Church and State.

When you educate a woman, you set her free. Had I not had books and education in Mississippi, I would have believed that's all there was.

Journalism's been a continuing course in adult education for me.

To me, education is the way out of poverty. And it is the only way.

All education in a country has got to be demonstrably in promotion of the progress of the country in which it is given.

You know, this is what I've always thought a college should look like.

We are going to be working very hard on the inner cities having to do with education, having to do with crime. We're going to try and fix as quickly as possible.

School is one thing. Education is another. The two don't always overlap. Whether you're in school or not, it's always your job to get yourself an education.

Mathematics is a vast adventure; its history reflects some of the noblest thoughts of countless generations.

Education is an admirable thing.

Investing in girls' education is the very best thing we can do, not just for our daughters and granddaughters, but for their families, their communities, and their countries.

Education - lifelong education for everyone - from toddlers to workers well advanced in their careers - is indeed an excellent investment for individuals and society as a whole.

I'm not going to benefit from free college education, but I think all those things are good for the country.

It will help at every state along the road to learning. For the pre-school years we will help needy children become aware of the excitement of learning.

Support charters; insist on change for failing schools.

Maybe it's a tired tale, but without an education, you're not going to go anywhere.

Aptitudes are assumed, they should become accomplishments. That is the purpose of all education.

Our educational system basically strives for normal-which is too bad. Sometimes the exceptional is classified as abnormal and pushed aside.

An education is not a thing one gets, but a lifelong process.

Education brightens a darkened world.